Workshop on possible research collaborations between Computer and Social Sciences
The ubiquity of sensor, computing, communication, and storage technologies provides us with access to previously unknown amounts of data—Big Data. It has revolutionized research communities and their scientific methodologies and innovated the approaches to knowledge and theory building, validation, and exploitation also in engineering and the natural sciences. The humanities and social sciences face a paradigm shift away from data-scarce, static, coarse-grained and simple studies towards data- rich, dynamic, high resolution, and complex observations and simulations. Big Data research has become high priority of national and international funding organizations. With the foundation of a Linnaeus University Center on "Data Intensive Sciences and Applications" (DISA), https://lnu.se/disa in Jan 2017, Big Data also has become a profiled research environment at Linnaeus University. Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences are two of our target application fields.
Before concrete multi-disciplinary research between researchers from Computer and Social Sciences can be planned, we need to develop a common understanding of each other's strength and interests. We therefore invite for an intensive one-day workshop with scientific presentations from interested researchers in Computer and Social Sciences. The goal of this workshop is to identify common interest and plan one or more seed activities than can eventually lead to common projects funded by DISA and/or external funding organizations.
Researchers from Computer Science will introduce their research fields and their ongoing research. More specifically they will address questions of transforming Big Data to Information to Knowledge and address questions of coping with variety, velocity, and volume of Big data. Researchers from the Social Sciences will also talk about their ongoing and planned research in their respective disciplines.
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Agenda:
We will feature presentations of ca. 20-25 minutes plus discussions.
- Short welcome and introduction to the workshop and the expected outcomes, Diana Unander Nordle, Computer Science
- Who criticizes religion, in what way, and what are their political views? Magnus Hagevi, Professor Political Sciences
- Benefits and Perspectives of Information Visualization for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Andreas Kerren, Professor Computer Science
- Coffee and discussions
- Two hundred years of British parliamentary debates: Linguistic and social sciences perspectives, Jukka Tyrkkö, Guest Professor Department of Languages
- Data-driven Cross-diciplinary Research Projects, Jonas Lundberg, Senior Lecturer Computer Science
- Extremist views and discourse among "mainstream" actors, political polarization, and challenges to social trust in high-trust contexts. Karl Loxbo, Associate Professor Political Science
- Exploring and interacting with data using Virtual and Augmented Reality, Aris Alissandrakis, Senior Lecturer Media Technology
- Social Science
- Conclusions/next step